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OUR FOREFATHERS\u2019\nCOVENANTS<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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February 7, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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As we get into today\u2019s sharing, let me ask you this question.\nAre you beginning to see jut<\/span> how much the Gospel of\nthe Lord Jesus Christ was incorporated into the foundations of the United\nStates of America?\u00a0 <\/span>Are you seeing the\ncovenant commitment that our founding fathers had with the Lord, and why they\nwere so driven to establish a nation in which Jesus Christ was Lord?<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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They had a singular purpose to create a nation that would become\na shining light to the rest orf<\/span> the world \u2014 a nation\nthat would represent the Gospel to other nations!\u00a0 <\/span>Never in history had such a thing been done\nbefore, and not since our founding has it been done again.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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It\nwas in 1732 that James Edward Oglethorpe, a member of the English Parliament,\nconceived a vision for a new colony in America.\u00a0 This colony would be a\nhaven for debtors, a place where those in debtors prison could be transported\nand given an opportunity to start life all over again.\u00a0 By the time King\nGeorge II (hence, the colony's name in honor of the king) granted Oglethorpe\nhis charter on June 9, 1732, he had given up on the idea of using men and women\nfrom a debtors prison and hand-picked 116 men, women and children to join him\nin his venture.\u00a0 Several ministers representing different groups of\nChristians were included.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For\nthe first time in the history of these charters and colonial grants, we see an\nexception in the grants to those within a specific religious group -- namely\nRoman Catholics.\u00a0 History tells us otherwise that there was a great\nreligious conflict raging between those giving allegiance to the Church of\nEngland and those who believed that the pope was the only rightful authority\namong Christians.\u00a0 King George II was keenly affected by this controversy\nand chose to incorporate an exception to Catholics in the writing of the\nCharter of Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The\nCharter reads in part, \"And for the\ngreater ease and encouragement of our loving subjects and such others as shall\ncome to inhabit in our said colony, we do by these presents, for us, our heirs\nand successors, grant, establish and ordain, that forever hereafter, there\nshall be a liberty of conscience allowed in the worship of God, to all persons\ninhabiting, or which shall inhabit or be resident within our said provinces and\nthat all such persons, except papists<\/u>, shall have a free exercise of\ntheir religion, so they be contented with the quiet and peaceable enjoyment of\nthe same, not giving offence or scandal to the government.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thus,\ndespite the fact that much effort and activity to evangelize the Cherokee\nIndians (and other tribes) within the proscribed boundaries of this new colony\nhad been carried out for more than 50 years by Franciscan monks, Catholics were\nexcluded from their right to worship and build their churches.\u00a0 This\nnon-status, however, lasted officially for perhaps only two decades as the\nreligious floodgates opened to more persecuted Christians from all over\nEurope.\u00a0 Lutherans, Puritans, Quakers and other lesser-known groups of\nChristians poured into the colony.\u00a0 The so-called \"Protestant\"\nChristians became a dominant force in the new and expanding colony, but at the\nsame time, the former barriers to Catholics began to be torn down as Georgia\nbecame one of the most tolerant colonies for differences between the various\ngroups of Christians.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If\nthere can be said to be one dominant characteristic that described the\nestablishment and subsequent charters within the Georgia colony, it was that in\norder to become recognized as a citizen, a landowner, and a participant in the\nvoting and choosing of leaders, each individual was required to confess and\ndemonstrate (through their life and actions otherwise) that \"there is only\none Lord, Jesus Christ, and one God Almighty, His and our Father\" to whom\nthey swore their allegiance and faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\nwas the year 1681.\u00a0 Charles II was King of England.\u00a0 William Penn,\nson of Sir William Penn, approached King Charles with a proposition for a grant\nof land and a charter for a new colony in America; the purpose -- ostensibly --\nwas to \"enlarge the dominions of England\" but Penn's objective was to\nprovide a place for missionaries who would evangelize the Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thus,\nthat same year Charles II provided Penn with his first Charter for the Province of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/b>.\u00a0\nIn part, the charter reads, \"CHARLES the\nSecond, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland,\nDefender of the Faith, &c. To all whom these presents shall come, Greets.\nWHEREAS Our Trusty and well beloved Subject WILLIAM PENN, Esquire, Son and heir\nof Sir WILLIAM PENN deceased, out of a commendable Desire to enlarge our\nEnglish Empire, and promote such useful commodities as may be of Benefit to us\nand Our Dominions, as also to reduce the savage Natives by gentle and just\nmanners to the Love of Civil Society and Christian Religion, hath humbly\nbesought Leave of Us to transport an ample Colony unto a certain Country\nhereinafter described. in the Parts of America not yet cultivated and\nplanted...\"<\/span>\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>(spelling corrected for current English)<\/span><\/p>\n

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The\nfollowing year, William Penn drew up a document which he called Penn's Charter of Libertie<\/span>.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\nThis document laid out a basis for governing the province according to Godly\nprinciples.\u00a0 In paragraph 13 of the Charter, he issued an order that \"[a committee of plantations...shall elect...a\nCommittee of manners Education and Arts that all Wicked and scandalous Living\nmay be prevented and that Youth may be successively trained up in Virtue and\nuseful Knowledge and Arts.\"<\/span>\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>(spelling corrected)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paragraph\n22 reads, \"THAT-as often as any day of the\nmonth mentioned in any Article of this Charter shall fall on the First day of\nthe Week commonly called the Lord's day the Business appointed for that day\nshall be deferred till the next day unless in Case of Emergency.\"<\/span> <\/i><\/b>(spelling\ncorrected)<\/span><\/p>\n

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In\ncase there might have been any question as to Penn's objectives in chartering\nthis colony and establishing a republican form of government in order to ensure\nthat all of its settlers and colonists knew -- unequivocally -- that this\ncolony was being established after God's order, on May 5, 1682, he prepared a\nconstitution in order to form a civil government that would last through\ngenerations whether those governing were good or evil.\u00a0 William Penn's Frame of Government of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/b> is a remarkable\ndocument.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His\npreamble or preface reads like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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When the great and wise God had made the world, of all his\ncreatures, it pleased him to choose man his Deputy to rule it: and to fit him\nfor so great a charge and trust, he did not only qualify him with skill and\npower, but with integrity to use them justly. This native goodness was equally\nhis honour<\/span> and his happiness, and whilst he stood\nhere, all went well; there was no need of coercive or compulsive means; the\nprecept of divine love and truth, in his bosom, was the guide and keeper of his\ninnocency<\/span>. But lust prevailing against duty, made a\nlamentable breach upon it; and the law, that before had no power over him, took\nplace upon him, and his disobedient posterity, that such as would not live\nconformable to the holy law within, should fall under the reproof and\ncorrection of the just law without, in a Judicial administration.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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This the Apostle teaches in divers of his epistles: \" The law\n(says he) was added because of transgression: \" In another place, \"\nKnowing that the law was not made for the righteous man; but for the\ndisobedient and ungodly, for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers,\nfor whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, and for\nman-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,\" &c., but this is not\nall, he opens and carries the matter of government a little further:<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u201cLet every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no\npower but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God: whosoever therefore resisteth<\/span> the power, resisteth<\/span>\nthe ordinance of God. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil:\nwilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt<\/span> have praise of the same.\" \u201cHe is the minister of\nGod to thee for good.\" \u201cWherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for\nwrath, but for conscience sake.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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This settles the divine right of government beyond exception, and\nthat for two ends: first, to terrify evil doers: secondly, to cherish those\nthat do well; which gives government a life beyond corruption, and makes it as\ndurable in the world, as good men shall be. So that government seems to me a\npart of religion itself, a filing sacred in its institution and end. For, if it\ndoes not directly remove the cause, it crushes the effects of evil, and is as\nsuch, (though a lower, yet) an emanation of the same Divine Power, that is both\nauthor and object of pure religion; the difference lying here, that the one is\nmore free and mental, the other more corporal and compulsive in its operations:\nbut that is only to evil doers; government itself being otherwise as capable of\nkindness, goodness and charity, as a more private society.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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They weakly err, that think there is no other use of government,\nthan correction, which is the coarsest part of it: daily experience tells us,\nthat the care and regulation of many other affairs, more soft, and daily\nnecessary, make up much of the greatest part of government; and which must have\nfollowed the peopling of the world, had Adam never fell, and will continue\namong men, on earth, under the highest attainments they may arrive at, by the\ncoming of the blessed Second Adam, the Lord from heaven. Thus much of\ngovernment in general, as to its rise and end.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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That\nWilliam Penn understood all government to be derived from God is\ninescapable.\u00a0 That he understood how government could be corrupted by evil\nmen is also inescapable.\u00a0 He wraps up his preface to the constitution\nthus:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"But, lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one frame of\ngovernment in the world so ill designed by its first founders, that, in good\nhands, would not do well enough; and story tells us, the best, in ill ones, can\ndo nothing that is great or good; witness the Jewish and Roman states.\nGovernments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments\nare made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore\ngovernments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good,\nand the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men\nbe bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and\nspoil it to their turn.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\"I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for\nthe men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do\nwell, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or\nevaded [<\/span><\/i><\/b>invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men but good men will never want good laws, nor\nsuffer ill ones. It is true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers, but\nthat is where they have not power to escape or abolish them, and the people are\ngenerally wise and good: but a loose and depraved people (which is the\nquestion) love laws and an administration like themselves. That, therefore,\nwhich makes a good constitution, must keep it, viz<\/span>:\nmen of wisdom and virtue, qualities, that because they descend not with worldly\ninheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth;\nfor which after ages will owe more to the care and prudence of founders, and\nthe successive magistracy, than to their parents, for their private patrimonies<\/span>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\"These considerations of the weight of government, and the\nnice and various opinions about it, made it uneasy to me to think of publishing\nthe ensuing frame and conditional laws, foreseeing both the censures, they will\nmeet with, from melt of differing humors and engagements, and the occasion they\nmay give of discourse beyond my design.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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But, next to the power of necessity, (which is a solicitor, that\nwill take no denial) this induced me to a compliance, that we have (with\nreverence to God, and good conscience to men) to the best of our skill,\ncontrived and composed the frame and laws of this government, to the great end\nof all government, viz<\/span>: To support power in reverence\nwith the people, and to secure the people from the almost of power; that they\nmay be free by their just obedience, and the magistrates honourable<\/span>,\nfor their just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and\nobedience without liberty is slavery. To carry this evenness is partly owing to\nthe constitution, and partly to the magistracy: where either of these fail,\ngovernment will be subject to convulsions; but where both are wanting, it must\nbe totally subverted; then where both meet, the government is like to endure.\nWhich I humbly pray and hope God will please to make the lot of this of\nPennsylvania. Amen.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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A\nbit wordy, I know, but Penn's arguments in this preface make his purpose and\nintent absolutely clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fourteen\nyears after this framework for Pennsylvania's government was written, on\nNovember 1, 1696, the new governor of the colony, William Markham, prepared an\nexpanded Frame of Government of Pennsylvania<\/span><\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Paragraph\n5 of that document reads in part, \"...all\npersons who shall be hereafter either elected to serve in Council and Assembly,\nor commissioned or appointed to be Judges, Justices, Masters of the Rolls,\nSheriffs, Coroners, and all other offices of State and trust, within this\ngovernment, who shall conscientiously scruple to take an oath, but when\nlawfully required, will make and subscribe the declaration and profession of\ntheir Christian belief<\/u>, according to the late act of parliament, made in\nthe first year of king William, and the late queen Mary, entitled, An act for\nexempting their majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of\nEngland, from the penalty of certain laws, shall be adjudged, and are hereby\ndeclared to be qualified to act in their said respective offices and\nplaces....\"\u00a0<\/span> <\/i><\/b>(emphasis, mine)<\/span><\/p>\n

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On\nOctober 28, 1701, William Penn released the charter provided him by King\nCharles II to all of the colonists and settlers living in what was then\nreferred to as Pennsylvania and Territories for their self-governance.\u00a0\nCertain conditions were proscribed for those settlers in order to take\nadvantage of their new rights and freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In\na document titled, Charter of Privileges Granted by\nWilliam Penn, esq<\/span>. to the Inhabitants of Pennsylvania\nand Territories, October 28, 1701<\/span><\/b>, Penn outlined the basis for all\ntrue freedoms.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"BECAUSE no People can be truly happy, though under the\ngreatest Enjoyment of Civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their\nConsciences, as to their Religious Profession and Worship:<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of\nLights and Spirits; and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge,\nFaith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince\nthe Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare, That no Person or\nPersons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories, who shall confess and\nacknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and\nprofess him or themselves obliged to live quietly under the Civil Government,\nshall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate,\nbecause of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled\nto frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to\nhis or their Mind, or to do or super any other Act or Thing, contrary to their\nreligious Persuasion.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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AND that all Persons who also profess to believe in Jesus Christ,\nthe Saviour<\/span> of the World, shall be capable\n(notwithstanding their other Persuasions and Practices in Point of Conscience\nand Religion) to serve this Government in any Capacity, both legislatively and\nexecutively, he or they solemnly promising, when lawfully required, Allegiance\nto the King as Sovereign, and Fidelity to the Proprietary and Governor, and\ntaking the Attests as now established by the Law made at New-Castle, in the\nYear One Thousand and Seven Hundred, entitled, An Act directing the Attests of\nseveral Officers and Ministers, as now amended and confirmed this present\nAssembly.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Thus\nPennsylvania was established as a colony and \"One People Under God,\"\nirrespective of their doctrinal differences.\u00a0 Much of Penn's wording in\nhis various charters and grants was incorporated into the original state\nconstitution on September 28, 1776.\u00a0 William Penn, like John Winthrop in\nMassachusetts, knew that no government can truly provide a framework for real\nfreedom and liberty to worship unless that government clearly and unambiguously\nrecognized God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ as sovereign in all\nmatters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What\na heritage those men left to their heirs, assigns and successors.\u00a0 What a\nheritage they left to the founding fathers of our Constitution when our nation\nbegan to come together as a cohesive people 75 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n

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